How to produce this simple dot graph (graphviz) with plantuml ?

Question

Hi,

Could you please tall me How to produce this simple graph with plantuml ?

digraph G{

     nodesep = 0.25

     layout=dot     

     a [shape=rectangle width=5 ]

     b [shape=rectangle width=2]

     c [shape=rectangle width=5]  

     d [shape=rectangle width=12.5 constraint=false]     

     b-> d [style="invis"]   

}

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Answer 1

The simple way:

• Why not using GraphViz/dot directly on PlantUML?
  As:

Regards.

Comments

Hi,

The purpose of this post was to give a simple dot graph, which is hard to achieve with plantuml ( I would love to be wrong here ! )  to highlight the difficulties to have so some sort of deterministic layout. ( determinist layout seems to be a difficult topic  in some cases)

Anyway, a better way of asking the question could have been : 

"How to produce this layout with class diagram  ?"

Meaning changing the rectangle just with "class" for example...

That's why I posted also on the forum this question

What is the mapping between Plantuml diagrams and Graphiz Layout (dot, neato, circo...) ?

In Graphviz,  layout engines express the different types of projection.

For example, the nop (nop1) nop2 flag in graphviz can be used when we explicitly give positions.

But as far as I know, in Plantuml we have these controls to play with the layout

• left to right direction (or :  top  to bottom direction )
• nodesep
• ranksep
• SameClassWidth 
• MinClassWidth    

plus all the tricks explain here

It seems that we can't give positions, and we can't give a specific width to a particular node.

(The latter was enough to have what I asked with the help of the edges)

So I am stuck lol ;-) .

Thanks for your suggestion , I read the document

It's more a wrapper than integration right ?

Indeed,  the Following is OK

@startuml
digraph foo {
 PlantUML -> Dot [label=use];
}
@enduml

But this is not 

@startuml

class a
digraph foo {
 PlantUML -> Dot [label=use];
}
@enduml

Please correct me If I am wrong.

Any missed documentation or technical info is greatly welcomed.

Finally I ask the better question : 

"How to produce this layout with class diagram  ?"

Thanks

Best Regards,

Kasra

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@ The-Lu

Do you have an example of diagram that combines plantuml and dot ?

For example a "class" or an "interface" that points to a graphviz  node ?

I am not able to find the right syntax.

Thanks

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Hello K.,

Thanks for your precisions.

Here is a minimal example:

@startuml
class a
label l [
{{
digraph foo {
 PlantUML -> Dot [label=use];
}
}}
]
@enduml

But the 2 are independent, and cannot be connected.

If that can help,
Regards.

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Thanks a lot ;-) !!